Kleoniki Alexopoulou

Kleoniki Alexopoulou (Greek: Κλεονίκη Αλεξοπούλου; born 19 October 1984) is a Greek historian specializing in economic and social history, colonialism, and the Global South. She has taught at Panteion University in Athens – as well as several other European institutions – and has served as an Academic Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities in Athens.^[2]

After graduating in Political Science and Sociology at Panteion University and the University of Athens, and in International Development at Utrecht University, in 2018 she completed a PhD on the fiscal regimes of Portuguese colonies (1850–1975) at Wageningen University.^[2][3] Her academic work includes a co-authored article with Jörg Baten in the European Review of Economic History, which examines elite violence and numeracy in Africa from 1400 to 1950,^[4] a paper on numeracy levels in Ottoman Turkey and Ottoman Greece,^[2][3] as well as research on fiscal and labour systems in colonial Africa.^[5] In 2024–25, Alexopoulou was selected as a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), where she focused on the theme of "colonial residues".^[6]

In 2025, she was part of the steering committee of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international civil society initiative aimed at challenging the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and establishing a humanitarian corridor.^[7]